michelle obama will speak in prime time tonight and san antonio mayor julian castro with the keynote address. gallup poll find 38% of voters rate mitt romney's acceptance speech. that's the lowest since 1996. >>> joining for us politics and economy talk is michael grunewald, senior correspondent at "time" magazine. his latest week is called "the new new deal: the hidden change of obama era" and still with us is steven horowitz. michael, i would imagine given your discussion in the book about "the new new deal" that you support what the president has done with regard to stimulus. perhaps would like to see the democrats be more aggressive on this front. >> well, you know, i've been a reporter for 20 years. i'm not really in the endorsement business. but i think there is extraordinary amount of evidence that the stimulus work. that you had in the fourth quarter of 2008 you had gdp dropping at 9% annual rate. you lost 800,000 jobs in january 2009, which was really the bottom. and then you passed the stimulus in february and the next quarter you had the biggest jobs improvement in 30 year